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Health on the Hill

A Brown alumna returns to the fold. Vanessa Britto, MD RES’89 F’91 MMSc’96 says she “backed into” college health. Early in her career, she divided her time between her private internal medicine...

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Clinical Problems Inspire Engineers-in-Training

Biomedical engineering students devise unique solutions to real-world medical challenges. At the beginning of the 2017-18 academic year, cardiothoracic surgeon Neel Sodha, MD, walked into a classroom...

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Code Red

Many doctors go unpaid for clinical work between appointments, study finds. A new study led by researchers at the Warren Alpert Medical School and Healthcentric Advisors found that most primary care...

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State-of-the-Art Test Subjects

Brown researchers are creating lab-grown microtissues as an alternative to animal testing. When you’re addressing the world’s problems, sometimes you don’t have to look far for answers. Sometimes the...

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Giant Cells Break the Rules

First study on physical properties of polyploidal cancer cells may inform new treatments. Polyploidal cancer cells—cells that have more than two copies of each chromosome—are much larger than most...

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More Help for Babies

National group selects Rhode Island as a ‘learning lab’ state to prevent neonatal withdrawal. The National Governors Association selected Rhode Island as one of five states to help develop a strategic...

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Getting to Zero

With patients’ advice and new tools, a hospital aims to prevent all suicide deaths. Try to imagine yourself in the shoes of someone who wants to take their own life. “Think about the pain and the...

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Tick, Tick, Boom

An explosion of Lyme disease leaves some Rhode Islanders sick for months—and their doctors with a challenge. When 33-year-old Jonathan Messier of Cumberland developed a high fever in July 2017, he...

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Modern Family

Delayed childbearing is a growing source of multiple births, study shows. Starting in the 1980s, the number of multiple births—twins, triplets, quadruplets, and quintuplets—steadily increased from...

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How does tanning change the brain?

Harmful in more ways than one. Recent research suggests that frequent exposure to the ultraviolet rays used in tanning beds can be harmful not just physically but also psychologically. Martin A....

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Anytime, Anywhere

Kenya gets its first emergency medicine master’s degree program. During her emergency medicine training at Brown and Yale, Grace Wanjiku, MD, MPH RES’15 learned to first check a trauma patient’s ABCs:...

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Why Do You Want to Be a Doctor?

The answer changes after years of practice. I remember during my interviews for medical school being asked the ageold question, “So, why do you want to be a doctor?” My response, of course, was to...

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Anatomy of a Botanist

  There are around 100,000 specimens of plants, fungi, algae, and the like in the Brown University Herbarium. Most were collected more than a century ago. It’s a nice—and definitive—permanent record of...

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Professor Elected to NAM

Prestigious appointment recognizes Jody Rich for his work fighting the opioid epidemic and addressing health issues among prisoners. Josiah “Jody” Rich, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and of...

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Booze on the Brain

Just a few drinks can change how memories are formed. One of the many challenges with battling alcohol addiction and other substance abuse disorders is the risk of relapse, even after progress toward...

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Brain Wave

An EEG-based test could improve patient pain assessments and reduce the over-prescription of opioids. If you’ve ever visited the emergency department with appendicitis, or you’re one of the 100 million...

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‘Pursuit of Personhood’

A lawsuit seeking damages for the loss of frozen eggs and embryos may have legal and ethical implications. On March 3, 2018, a liquid nitrogen storage tank at the University Hospitals Fertility Center...

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Message in a Bottle

Photo exhibit explores the ‘ripple effects’ of drinking and driving. Jason Hack, MD, has witnessed firsthand the consequences of drunk driving since his medical student days. He recalls a shift in the...

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Note-worthy Performance

The Providence Medical Orchestra holds its first concert this Saturday. If you walk through the halls of the Warren Alpert Medical School on a Tuesday evening, you might just catch the sweeping notes...

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Professor Elected AAAS Fellow

Sharon Rounds was recognized for her distinguished contributions to science. Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Sharon Rounds, MD, was elected by her peers as a fellow of the American Association for...

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